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On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@g.o> wrote: |
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> [ sorry, a lot to quote ] |
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> What upstream do you plan to report bugs when user possibly mixes |
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> all of it in one mess? Each of those is known to be unstable. The mix |
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> is just a disaster. |
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> Is gentoo's kernel team able to resolve user's OOpsen? |
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>> ### ... and configuration. ### |
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>> This problem is not only visible for patches, but also in the config. |
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> Insane :] |
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>> Meet CONFIG_DEVTMPFS; forget to enable it, greet a failing boot. We're |
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>> telling users to enable it in some places, in the handbook it's a single |
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>> line you must read, on the Wiki it's kind of missing unless you are |
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>> luckily on the right page, on the Quick Install book it is missing too. |
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> Forbid users install udev to ROOT=/ if running kernel does not support devtmpfs |
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> (easy to check by /proc/filesystems) |
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No. As explained multiple times, this check is not reliable and |
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doesn't work (chroot, binpkgs, containers without kernel, and so |
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on...). |
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Making sure that the user doesn't build an unbootable kernel is the way to go. |
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> -- |
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> Sergei |
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Fabio Erculiani |
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